| 单词 | menace |
| 释义 | menace (once / 345 pages) nv If it's threatening you or otherwise posing some sort of danger, then it's a menace. Angry rabid dogs, smog clouds, and annoying little brothers are all probable menaces. The word menace works as both a noun and a verb, but it wasn't used to describe threatening or bothersome people until 1936. Before then, common menaces probably included things like the plague, locusts, and roving bands of pirate ships. Today, a bad reputation can menace an otherwise promising career, weeds can menace your garden, and burglars are a menace to society. WORD FAMILYmenace: menaced, menaces, menacing+/menacing: menacingly USAGE EXAMPLESIn time Roosevelt was able to stem the economic bloodbath, but only to be confronted by the Nazi menace overrunning Europe. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) There was an encouraging moment for City when Silva provided some menace with a run through the Liverpool defense before firing just wide of Mignolet. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) They remained drawn to their team’s brash play and menacing image even though its performance on the field was often uninspiring. New York Times(Dec 31, 2016) 1n something that is a source of danger Syn|Hypo|Hyper threat yellow peril the threat to Western civilization said to arise from the power of Asiatic peoples danger a cause of pain or injury or loss 2n a threat or the act of threatening he spoke with desperate menace Hyper threat declaration of an intention or a determination to inflict harm on another 3v pose a threat to; present a danger to Syn|Hyper endanger, imperil, jeopardise, jeopardize, peril, threaten be, exist have an existence, be extant 4v express a threat either by an utterance or a gesture he menaced the bank manager with a stick Hyper evince, express, show give expression to 5v act in a threatening manner A menacing person Hyper act, behave, do behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself |
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